Lydiard Street Double Stabbing

POLICE have charged a man following a double stabbing in Ballarat this
morning.

A 25-year-old Burnside man has been hit with a series of charges
including three counts of recklessly cause injury, one count of affray and two
counts each of intentionally cause serious injury, recklessly cause serious
injury and intentionally cause injury.

Police will allege the man stabbed two
19-year-old Ballarat men after a fight at the Lydiard Street taxi rank at 5am
this morning.

One received stitches to his neck and the other was transported
to the Royal Melbourne Hospital this afternoon for surgery on stab wounds on his
back.

Police say the fight broke out after an altercation between two groups
of males about 5am at the Lydiard Street taxi rank.